Waterville News

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Will someone please step up and tell Commissioner Ben Konop to stop picking at the carcass of dog warden Tom Skeldon? He has tendered his resignation effective early next year and it is time for the Board of Commissioners to move on and make a better dog pound that is free of controversy.

Funeral plans are set for a popular West Toledo carryout clerk who was shot to death in a robbery Thursday night.

The board of the YMCA and JCC of Greater Toledo appears to have adopted the rope-a-dope strategy against the Coalition of Concerned Citizens and Y members who are attempting to save the South Toledo Y. For younger readers, "rope-a-dope" was a strategy used most famously by boxer Muhammad Ali on Oct.

3:03 a.m. Complainant reported two males streaked through the parking lot at Circle K. 4:05 a.m. Travis Lines, 18, Waterville Ohio, was arrested for underage possession of alcohol and Joseph Soto, 21, was arrested for disorderly conduct urinating within the 900th block of Klotz Road.

As of early Tuesday afternoon, voting in the city of Toledo was almost twice as heavy as it was at the same time during September's primary, Lucas County election officials said Tuesday.

Kathy Gabel of Maumee estimates she tried on 25 to 30 dresses before finding the dress to wear at the Oct.

E.J. Wells may be the perfect rocker for Halloween. The Toledo musician loves to dig around in the rock and roll boneyard and pull up macabre odes to the dark side with song titles such as "Hearse Driver," "Downstairs at the Funeral Home," "Cemetery Man," "Blood on the Moon," and "The Undertaker's Lament." His latest is "Something in the ...

Lake Township's Friendly Park will be getting a donation of playground equipment.

A drama inspired by Hurricane Katrina makes its regional debut next week at Ohio Northern University in Ada.

WATERVILLE: Ronald E. Dalton, age 67, of Waterville, passed away Sunday, October 11, 2009 after a brief and sudden illness.

Springfield Township Hall was the site for a free H1N1 vaccine clinic.A However Lucas County health officials were surprised at the number of people who showed up.

After only 6 1/2 months on the job, Michael Stolarczyk has resigned as president of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, with Paul Toth - the man once passed up for the job - named yesterday as his successor.

Waterville Township trustees accepted the resignation of police chief Kathleen Hartle last night, more than a month after she was suspended under allegations that she had an open container of alcohol in her police cruiser.

Most branches of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library will be open during regular hours.

School officials in two towns are searching for the next step after the new Waterville Elementary School principal abruptly and mysteriously resigned barely a month into her new job.

A student at the Something Special Learning Center in Waterville has come down with the H1N1 virus.

A coffee cup containing liquor was found in the front of her police patrol car, according to investigative reports obtained by The Blade, but criminal charges will not be filed against Waterville Township Police Chief Kathleen Hartle, the reports said.

A semi tractor-trailer rig rolled over Monday afternoon on the ramp from eastbound U.S. 24 to southbound I-475 between Waterville and Maumee, and the ramp has been shut down, police said.

PERRYSBURG, OH. In response to the devastating floods affecting both the state of Georgia in the United States and the victims of Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines, ISOH/IMPACT is accepting donations of relief supplies to aid the victims.